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Court-Packing Would Decimate the Court’s Credibility

May 4, 2021
NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins “National Report” on Newsmax to discuss the dangers associated with the plan to expand the Supreme Court.   Key points: The Court depends on the credibility that is established by making decisions based on law, not politics. A decision from Biden’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme…
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Crypto Crackdown Drives ‘John Doe’ Record Demands from IRS

May 4, 2021
The IRS is seeking swaths of records from cryptocurrency companies on anonymous taxpayers as part of its broader effort to crack down on tax evasion in the industry. The demands involve the potential tax liabilities of unnamed taxpayers, and for that reason are known as John Doe summonses. The agency recently secured court permission to issue…
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Federal Court in Wyoming Asked to Block RFID Technology

April 26, 2021
Livestock producers represented by the Billings, MT cattlemen’s group known as R-CALF say they have a  “right” to use “traditional low-cost methods related to animal identification and traceability.”  But USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) with growing support from such industry leaders as Tyson Foods wants to soon require “radio frequency identification (RFID) ear…
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Parents Defend Electric Shock as Extreme Tool for Extreme Cases

April 23, 2021
The D.C. Circuit appeared set Friday to reverse a federal ban on electric-shock devices, which are used to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior in only one facility in the entire nation: the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts. From Mother Jones and Mass Live to a 2012 video that shows a teenager being shocked and screaming for help, the center has…
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Justices Resolve Circuit Split on Challenges to Judge Appointments

April 23, 2021
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Social Security applicants who challenge the appointment of administrative law judges are not required to first bring those claims to the agency before taking their case to court. The six individuals who brought the consolidated suit were denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration. While they appealed…
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Supreme Court Slams Brakes on FTC’s Fraud-Recovery Options

April 22, 2021
WASHINGTON (CN) — Overturning a nearly $1.3 billion injunction against a race car driver convicted of payday-lending fraud, the Supreme Court on Thursday took away what the Federal Trade Commission has called “one of its most important and effective enforcement tools.” The FTC has relied on said tool to recoup billions of dollars over the past decade,…
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